TX: Sweetheart Ride RoadRally

The Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) invites you to join us at Logan’s Roadhouse for Jerry White’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed road rally. It will be about a 90-mile drive on some of the scenic hard surfaced country roads in the Brazos River Valley in Parker, Hood, and Palo Pinto Counties. No prior rally experience or SCCA membership is necessary.

The challenge is to see how many correct puzzle solutions (many with a sweetheart theme) you can find based on signs and objects along the rally route. Puzzles can have from zero (0) to four (4) correct solutions. One (1) penalty point is awarded for each findable puzzle solution you miss marking as found and one (1) is awarded for each solution you mark as found when it didn’t exist or in some way was not a correct solution. Low score wins. There will never be more than one puzzle active at a time. Think of it as a visual scavenger hunt.

Google Forms will be used to display the route instructions and puzzles and to collect and score you and your sweetheart’s/navigator’s solutions. To use a Google Form, you will need a browser on a smartphone, tablet, or laptop computer to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or cellular data. 

In addition, you will need a separate smartphone to run the Richta GPS Competitor app. It will use GPS signals and a minor amount of cellular data to monitor your time and course and tell you when to stop working on a puzzle and/or prepare to do the next route instruction. You should also participate in the February 12th Zoom Rally School (or watch its recording) and visit roadrally.page to help prepare for the rally.

• Awards: First Timers, Novices (every person in the vehicle has won 2 or fewer rally trophies), and General Class.
• Optional Master Class for those who want bragging rights, yet don’t want more trophies.
• Start and finish at: Logan’s Roadhouse
• Registration/Check-In: 11:00am – noon.
• Mandatory Safety Briefing: 12:10pm.
• Car 1 receives the code that will allow them to submit their Google Forms: 12:21pm (Car 2, 12:22pm, etc.).
• There will be a rest break approximately midway at a gas station along the course.
• The first car should finish at Logan’s Roadhouse around 5:00 pm; results will be announced, and trophies will be awarded around 6:00pm.
• Click “Submit” on completed Google Forms for instant feedback on what you missed.
• Vehicles: Sports cars, family sedans, pickup trucks, SUV’s and anything else with four wheels that’s street legal (bring something that you will be comfortable in and will have fun driving on back roads and byways, many of which are oil & chip). Speed is not a factor.
• Optional: Get photographed making a splash through a ford (if the weather cooperates and we can find a photographer).
• At least two people (a driver and a navigator) are required in each car; contact rally@texasscca.org if you have a minor child (<18) in the vehicle, as a form will need to be signed.
• SCCA membership requirements: at least one SCCA Member required in each car, either regular/annual Member or Weekend Member; if not currently a Member, you will be able to become a Weekend Member during online pre-registration
• Rally entry fee: regular SCCA Members $25; Weekend Members $35 (includes membership fee). You must preregister on MotorsportReg.com.
• About two weeks before the rally the General Instructions will be posted on roadrally.page . The General Instructions will be emailed to those who preregister by then about a week before the event.
• Contact the Rallymaster if you have any questions.

Come on out and discover what game/tour/adventure (GTA) rallying is all about!

All entrants must preregister – no same-day registration allowed – and you are advised to preregister as early as possible. Notice that registration closes two days before the rally rather than the evening before the event. To preregister, page down and click on “Continue.” The Rally Committee reserves the right to limit entries.

The Sweetheart Ride RoadRally is the second event in the 2022 Texas Region SCCA RoadRally Series. The rally is sanctioned as a Regional Rally by the SCCA under Sanction Number 22-RRRG-57546; it qualifies for Regional Championship points but does not qualify for the National SCCA RoadRally Championship.

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